Sorry message was sent by chance incompletely............ In our last three visits first 26-28 june 2010, then 15-18 September 2011 iiird 20-22 October 2011, we could see maximum plants in september visit. flowers were completely different in june visit as compared to this visit in mid may. This time we visited the following places- Juddo village, Nagthat Village, Bairatkhai village, Makhti pokhri village, Chakrata town, Deovan forest area, Tiger fall, half way to mundhali trek upto sathmeeldhar, Budher Caves, Jaddi village (Most beautiful village and floristically very rich),Tiuni, Purola, Naugao, Barkot, Yamuna bridge. The way we travelled was about 850 kms from Panipat to Panipat (to and fro). The most important thing to visit this area is that person going to this area should be ready to accept poor hotel facilities and very very less eating points. Also important thing is very very poor condition of road network. Cars with less ground clearance are not suitable to visit this place. We faced problems many times with our Maruti Ritz car due to very uneven road. many times we were not able put our car in even 2nd gear and forced t keep in first gear for 6-7 kms particularly in budher area deovan area. This time we tried to mark point to point distance which i will share later on after proper compilation. any person going to this area may contact us for more details. This time we were only three Me Dr Nidhan Singh and one assistant of Dr Nidhan Singh Mr Ajay. I am processing my pics and will upload soon Thanks
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > We reached back home on night of 18 May after an another successful visit > to Chakrata region. For the information of members I wish to share some > important things. > Chakrata is situated in Uttarakhand State in Dehradoon District. This > region is considered as a paradise of botanists due to many regions. This > place is still far away from general tourists and completely out of bound > for foreigners. Hotel facilities are still highly underdeveloped in the > area as only 3-4 hotels are there. Even forest rest houses are situated in > remote area and with lack of basic facilities like electricity, poor toilet > and bath facilities, non availability of water etc. So natural vegetation > is still intact and very very less plastic pollution. there are no much > places to visit for general tourist. Besides all this this is the best > place for nature loers. Budher is famous for beautiful butterflies. In this > dry season also we could saw 2-3 dozens type of beautiful butterflies. This > time we could saw many precious medicinal plants in budher and deovan area > naturally like Podophyllum hexandrum (in fruiting stage), Taxus baccata, > Polygonatum multiflorum (in flowering), Polygonatum verticillatum (in > flowering) etc. More than two dozens of trees were also seen in flowering > stage. This time we interacted with many locals there and after many > discussions we reached on the conclusion that Chakrata region must be > visited in the month of Feb/March (End of Feb to first week of March) then > in Mid of July to end of July then in september and also in November. > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
